“Within a community shaped by moral integrity and kindness, Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation aims to cultivate responsibility and ambition, to ensure that every pupil can thrive, be happy and make a positive mark in the world. Pupils demonstrate an extremely high level of achievement in their academic studies and through their co-curricular commitments. This reflects the successful realisation of the school’s ambitious aims. Pupils display extremely well-developed study skills [and] achieve extremely high levels through participation in the school’s co-curricular programme. Boarders are highly appreciative of the benefits of their boarding experience [and] day pupils enjoy the benefits of collaboration with friends in their houses. Pupils demonstrate very high levels of self-knowledge and self-discipline in their academic studies and in their lives beyond the classroom.”